Archives of Maryland
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Andrew Skinner (b. 1763 - d. 1843)
MSA SC 5496-050633
War of 1812 Claimant, Talbot County, Maryland

Sources:


Archival Sources -

Claim of Andrew Skinner, Talbot County, Case #656, Case Files. Ca. 1814-28, 3.5 ft., entry 190, Record Group 76, National Archives, College Park

Definitive List of Slaves and Property. N.d. 1 vol., entry 192, Record Group 76, National Archives, College Park.

Proclamation by The Honorable Sir Alexander Cochrane, April 2, 1814. Admiralty Archives 1/508,579, London Public Records Office.

SPECIAL COLLECTIONS, Mary A. Dodge Collection 1664-1895, "Ledger B."  [MSA SC 564]

TALBOT COUNTY COMMISSIONERS OF THE TAX (Assessment Record) 1798-1826 [CM985-1]

TALBOT COUNTY COMMISSIONERS OF THE TAX (Assessment Record, Slaves) 1813-1826, [C1835-1]

TALBOT COUNTY COURT (Land Records) 1804-1806, Liber JL 31, folio 42 [MSA CE 90-34]

TALBOT COUNTY COURT (Land Records) 1804-1806, Deed, Liber JL 31, folio 92 [MSA CE 90-34]

TALBOT COUNTY COURT (Land Records) 1804-1806, Deed, Liber JL 31, folio 474 [MSA CE 90-34]

TALBOT COUNTY COURT (Land Records) 1825-1827, Bill of Sale, Liber 46, folio 18 & 283 [MSA CE 90-49].

TALBOT COUNTY COURT (Land Records) 1817-1818, Deed, Liber JL 40, folio 465 [MSA CE 90-43]

TALBOT COUNTY COURT (Land Records) 1819-1821, Bill of Sale, Liber JL 42, folio 357 [MSA CE 90-45]

TALBOT COUNTY COURT (Marriage Licenses) 1801-1839, [C1890-2]

TALBOT COUNTY, REGISTER OF WILLS, (Wills), 1832-1848, Andrew Skinner, Liber JP 9, Folio 203, [MSA CM1041-9].

TALBOT COUNTY, REGISTER OF WILLS, (Inventories), 1741-1759, Andrew Skinner, Liber IB 5, Folio 35, [MSA CM1029-5].

Treaty of Ghent, 1814; International Treaties and Related Records, 1778-1974; General Records of the United States Government; Record Group 11; National Archives.

U.S. Census Bureau (Census Record, MD) 1790, Andrew Skinner, Talbot County, pg. 117 [MSA SM61-19. M 2053-2]


Newspapers and Journals -

Ames, Joseph S. "Genealogies of Four Families of Dorchester County: Harrison, Haskins, Caile, Loockerman." Maryland Historical Magazine vol. 10 (1915). 

"An Overseer Wanted," Easton Gazette, 28 July 1832.

"Died," Easton Gazette, 2 September 1843.

"Farm and Stock for Sale," Easton Star, 17 October 1848.

"For Sale," Easton Gazette, 23 September 1843.

"Two Hundred Dollars Reward." Republican Star. 31 August 1813.


Books -

Harrison, Samuel A. History of Talbot County, Maryland, 1661-1861, Vol. 2. Baltimore: Williams & Wilkins Company, 1915.

United States Congress. American State Papers: Documents, Legislative and Executive. Washington: Gales and Seaton, 1859.

Weiss, John McNish. The Merikens: Free Black American Settlers in Trinidad, 1815-1816. London: McNish & Weiss, 1995.

Internet Sources -

Maryland Historical Trust Inventory of Historic Property. http://mdihp.net/dsp_county.cfm?search=county&id=16265&viewer=true&updated=N&criteria1=F&criteria2=TA

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